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A Star Threw Off a Sun's Worth of Material. And Then it Exploded!


just before a massive star explodes as a supernova? To figure that out, astronomers need to look at very "young" supernovae across multiple wavelengths of light. That's what happened when SN 2023ixf occurred in May 2023.

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